RHYME Poem: Kern, by Cillian Leddy

We are here tonight,
People of the Kern Plateau,
I will never know what it means to be lonely,
In the snowy hills of our Queen California with you,
With only the stars exploding in their youth above us.

To find ourselves here,
With the rocky canyons reverberating messages of love,
And the piney pulchritude all around us,
That surrounds the single tear running through the stream
That lines the echoing valley under the red sun of the west,
No gun or death is found here,
Only the breath of those who seek the beautiful,
And those who are not afraid to find it.

Please remind me to sit all through the night,
And wake in the true light of the world,
With a couple pearls in my hand,
And friends who understand the silence.

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